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Ed Pedro
Junior Member
Username: Rosed
Post Number: 16
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 72.141.185.137
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 10:57 pm: | 
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Well I had an interesting week up at the cottage, the lake refuses to freeze completely due to our unusual high temps, so I deceded to go out and play in the water, I have my tracks on because I expected snow by now, and I heard in the past that the argo tracks will not propell in the water, but I found they moved me just as well as the runamucks, in fact some areas had about 3/4 inch thick ice and I found the tracks helped to break it up in front of me.
I also wanted to try and climb back onto ice, and was unsuccessfull, I found an area near the shore with about 2" thick ice, and drove about 40 feet along the shoreline till I broke thru, and tried every technique I could think of but couldn't climb back onto the ice, my buddy had to winch me back out with his Bigfoot. |
david berger
Advanced Member
Username: Davidrrrd
Post Number: 489
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 72.72.11.154
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 09:57 am: |
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ED, what vehicle do you have?
with tires it is posable to get back on the ice with a bigfoot but not very easy if you took on any water,
i did it with tim okeefes bigfoot once by standing on the rear of the vehicle while operating the laterals and throtle,
i did this to get a little more rise out of the frount tires, he had gater tires on it i think.
anyway if thay get a bite your good to go.
if you have something to winch to this will help you once your tires bite also.
but the easyest way out of the waters backwards as argos tend to go nose deap due to engine weight in the frount.
it's no biggy, with some more expirementing you might find something that works for you, but tracks are not very agresave.
you might need some sort of ice cleats added to your trax,
id try just a few so turning wont be hurt to badly.
tim schotanus has a few ice cleats on his trax and seams to get onto the ice ok.
not often on the first try but it dose get onto the ice with some pationce.
(how many words did i get right?) |
Ed Pedro
Junior Member
Username: Rosed
Post Number: 17
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 70.52.162.252
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 12:40 pm: |
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Hi David,
I have a 2005 conquest, I've also tried last year with just the tires, but coulnd't get any traction, my tracks have the cleats on the edge, but I find they don't really grip because there is no weight on the edge of the track, I've been thinking of studding them like a snowmobile track, right under the tires with very shallow studs. And yes, I was triying to get up in reverse because the front end sits way too low in the water. |
Ed Pedro
Junior Member
Username: Rosed
Post Number: 18
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 70.52.162.252
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 12:45 pm: |
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Hi David,
I have a 2005 conquest, I've also tried last year with just the tires, but coulnd't get any traction, my tracks have the cleats on the edge, but I find they don't really grip because there is no weight on the edge of the track, I've been thinking of studding them like a snowmobile track, right under the tires with very shallow studs. And yes, I was triying to get up in reverse because the front end sits way too low in the water.
ps. I didn't take on any water, I've been out in lake with the argo for hours at a time , and it's always bone dry, I run my bilge once in a while but nothing comes out, and I doublecheck when I'm back on land. |
david berger
Advanced Member
Username: Davidrrrd
Post Number: 490
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 72.72.11.154
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 03:12 pm: |
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ooh, i think the 8x8's sit a little more on the leval than the 6x6's in the water so the backwards thing is less of a sure bet than in a 6x6.
speed helps, as in momentum or inertia befor you hit the ice.
but this may be a case where adding cleats will be nesesary.
i remember watching tim schotanus nearly drain a pond he wanted to exit from but a stump kept him from geting his tires to toutch the shore,
his trax were like twinn 35HP convayer belts pumping the water on shore!
it was quite an amazeing site! |
Dave Keeso
Intermediate Member
Username: Argomag
Post Number: 81
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 142.55.206.221
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 01:48 pm: |
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David Berger- i have to argue against that - i think 8x8 sit much lower in the front with the back end way out of the water. I have driven both 6x6 and 8x8 in water and mine sits way higher- I loaded down the back end with 3 buddies who are very well large, and it still sat way up in the water. |
momobigfoot
New member
Username: Momobigfoot
Post Number: 5
Registered: 09-2006
Posted From: 69.152.89.165
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 13, 2007 - 08:07 pm: |
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I've had my argo for 6 yrs now. But I demo one 3 yrs before i got one. The company that gave me a demo was s.w. florida . The business they used argo's to spray over going vegetation in the everglades. All 6x6's and 8x8's were equiped with big tanks and pumps and all used tracks. I asked them about how it did out there they said great.I know now that they were loaded with weight . The one i demoed was new with no tracks.. |
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